Ability Quote by Andrew Carnegie

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not…

— Katherine Paterson

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

— Pete Hamill

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

— Tim Ferriss

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized…

— James A. Michener

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people…

— Kenneth Fisher

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter

“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”

— Sara Sheridan

If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read…

— Melinda Gates

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own…

— Gary Ross

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks…

— Barbara Bush